The purpose of the study is to figure out the type of Verbal Control of a mother with a young child and her young child's social competence and to identify their correlation.
To achieve the purpose of the study, the following questions are made.
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The purpose of the study is to figure out the type of Verbal Control of a mother with a young child and her young child's social competence and to identify their correlation.
To achieve the purpose of the study, the following questions are made.
1. Is there any difference of mother's type of verbal control according to mother's socio-demographic variable?
1-1. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and her age?
1-2. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and her educational background?
1-3. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and whether she is employed?
2. Is there any difference of mother's type of verbal control according to her young child's variable?
2-1. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and her young child's sex?
2-2. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and her young child's age?
3. What relationship is there between a mother's type of verbal control and her young child's social competence?
3-1. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and her young child's initiative?
3-2. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and her young child's cooperativeness?
3-3. Is there a difference between type of a mother's verbal control and her young child's sociality?
4. Is there any difference of a young child's social competence according to young child's variable?
4-1. Is there a difference between a young child's social competence and a young child's sex?
4-2. Is there a difference between a young child's social competence and a young child's age?
Research subjects were 301 kindergarteners of age 4 to 5 in Gu-mi, their mothers and teachers. As a research tool, questionnaires were distributed to measure mothers' types of verbal control for a mother and questionnaires for a teacher were to measure a child's social ability. Some methods - chi-square test, one-way ANOVA, multivariate ANOVA, and scheffe post hoc test through SPSS/PC⁺ program - were used to evaluate date collected.
The results of this study were as follows ;
First, a mother's humanity-oriented verbal control was 49.8%, status-or iented verbal control was 21.3%, and command-oriented control was 28.9%.
There was no difference of mother's type of verbal control according to mother's age and whether she is employed. But, there was a difference of mother's type of verbal control according to mother's educational background. A mother with educational attainments over a college graduate used more person-oriented control than a mother with educational attainments under a high school graduate.
Second, there was no difference of mother's type of verbal control according to young child's gender and age. A mother with a 4 year-old child used more command-oriented control than a mother with a 5 year old child. A boy's mother also used more command-oriented control than a girl's mother.
Third, in the relationship between mother's type of verbal control and young children's social competence, children's social competence was the highest when a mother's type of verbal control was humanity-oriented.
Fourth, subordinate factors of social competence (initiative, cooper ativ eness, sociality) showed a more higher difference in personality-oriented control than command-oriented control and status-oriented control.
Fifth, there was a difference between young child's social competence and young child's sex. A girl had higher social competence than a boy. However, there was no difference between a child's social competence and his or her age.
As a result, the mother's verbal control has an effect on her child's social competence. And when a mother tries a language control, she needs to use more the personality-oriented control than the command-oriented control to have a desirable influence on a child's social competence. Therefore, a mother should try to communicate efficiently with her child and to develop actively her child's social competence through various institute and media.